Bryce's code is old and was already quite a mess to begin with, as we've been told by Doc Mojo ( = Ken Musgrave = one of bryce's creators = creator of Mojoworld).
Bryce has seen long peroids of abandonment through the death of Metacreations and the downfall of Corel.

By the time DAZ programmers got their hands on it, you can imagine the sourcecode was not just a mess, as Doc Mojo described, but also an ancient mess! While competing software packages have been born later then bryce or continuously updated, and in the process have had their sourcecode restructured, optimized and enhanced numerous times, this was not the case with Bryce. So bryce didnt only fall behind feature-wise, but also its inner mechanisms were by far not up to todays standards.

Then there's the fact that DAZ's programmers team for the bryce project was rumoured to not entirely consist of dedicated DAZ staff, meaning programmers might well not have had full dedication to the programs development.

Furthermore, after all those years, i doubt any of the original programmers moved along with Bryce through its multiple ownership transfers, thus the current programmers had to familiarize themselves with its source code before being able to really do anything significant to change it. This is a complicated task, especially when you do not have the help of any of the original programmers to give you a heads-up on how things work.

And then there's the fact that a lot Bryce's inner workings dont entirely make sense mathematically. Doc Mojo has stated in the past that the DTE contains some serious mathematical nonsense and was even theorizing it should be replaced entirely for something more presentable.

And finally there's bryce's user base. It's large, but its also largely amaturistic, and consists of many people who dont exactly have deep pockets compared to the normal type of price-tags in the world of 3d application prices. This constitutes a serious dilemma considering the large amounts of work that need to be done to take bryce to the next level, versus potentially little income for each sold copy.

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